Duncan Mackinnon

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Drawing by Mackinnon in The World , 1910

Duncan Mackinnon (born September 29, 1887 in Paddington , † October 9, 1917 in Ypres ) was a British rower .

Duncan Mackinnon was from Rugby School to the Magdalen College of Oxford University changed. In the rowing competitions of the Olympic Games in 1908 , the four-man without a helmsman of Magdalen College with the cast Collier Cudmore , James Angus Gillan , Duncan Mackinnon and John Somers-Smith reached the final by defeating the Canadian boat. In the final, the Leander Club's boat was initially in the lead, but in the end the four-man from Magdalen College won with a boat-length lead of one and a half.

From 1909 to 1911 Mackinnon rowed three times in the boat race in the victorious Oxford boat. He won a total of six times at the Henley Royal Regatta . After graduating, he worked in the family business in Calcutta. At the beginning of the First World War he returned to England and initially belonged to the Royal North Devon Hussars . He was later transferred to the Scots Guards . Mackinnon fell in the Third Battle of Flanders .

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SURNAME Mackinnon, Duncan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Paddington
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1917
Place of death Ypres